Wheeled support for ironing-stands and the like.



NO- 8274966. PATENTED AUG. '7, 1906.

W. H. FLAKE.

WHEELED SUPPORTPOR IRONINGSTANDS AND THE LIKE.

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S I w. H. FLAKE. 1 WHEELED SUPPORT FOR IRONING STANDS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JUN-19. 1005.

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Inventor I I I Httomgags UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGEQ' w L' Y HENRY FLAKE, or PLiiii r iiRsvIL Ln, MISSISSIPPI.

WHEELED SUPPORT FOR IRONINGT-SITANDS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Aug. 7, 1906.

Application filed June 9,1906. Serial No. 264,516.

To all], whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WYLEY HENRY FLAKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plantersville, in the county of Lee and State A of Mississipphhave invented a new and use ful Wheeled Support for Ironing-Stands andthe Like, of which the. following is a specification.

This invention relates to Wheeled supports, and is particularly desi ned for use in connection with ironing-Stan s.

The particular object of the invention is to provide for adjusting the wheeled support so as to bring the wheels thereof into engagehereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanyingdrawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificingany of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the wheeled support of the present invention applied to an ironing-'- stand, the wheels being in an elevated position and the stand supported upon its legs. Fig, 2 is a side'elevation showingthe wheeled support in position for supporting the stand upon its wheels, Fig, 8 is a fragmentary end view of the device; I

Like characters of reference designatecorresponding parts in all of the figures of the 1 drawings.

While the present invention is ca able of use in many relations, ithas been s own in the accompanying drawings as applied to an ironingrstand having a frame made up of .fourcorner-posts orv leg-standards 1, connected by longitudinal sills 2. One pair of leg-standards is connected by upper and lower cross-bars 3 and 4, and the other pair is connected by an upper cross bar 5. A top or main ironing board 6 issuitably hinged between one p i of leg st ndards and as port the board in a horizontal position.

1 its free end provided with a forked prop 7,

designed to rest upon the cross-bar 5 to sup; shorter ironing-board 8 is also hinged at the hinged end of the board 6 and is normally supported in a horizontal position by means of a prop 9, hinged to the under side of the board 8 and having its lower end removably engaged with a seat or-socket 10, carried by cross-bar 4. The leg-standards, which carry the ironing-boards, are preferably braced by K the braces 11, and the stand is further braced by suitable braces 13, extending between the sills 2. Suitable iron-holders 14 are preferably provided upon theupper ends of certain ofthe le standards. A receptacle 41 may be provi ed upon one end of the stand for containing iron-holders and other appurtenances. I

When the stand is inuse, it is supported upon the legs 1 in a rigid condition; but when it is designed to move the stand it is proposed to support the same upon wheels. To accomplish this purpose, thereis provided a wheeledtruck made up of opposite yokesha ed truck members, each of which includes a cross-bar 21 and terminal upstanding arms 22, which embrace the lower portions of the adjacent leg-standards and are pivotally connected thereto, as at 23, the

lengths of the arms 22 being such as to permit of the cross-bar 21 being swung down beneath the bottoms of the leg-standards. A

pair of wheels or rollers 24 is mounted in any suitable manner upon the bottom of the cross-bar 21, so as to engage the floor when the truck is swung downwardly into an upright position, as in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. At each side of the frame, stand,

or table there is a connecting-bar .25,"ter- 5 minally pivot'ed'to the lower. portions of the respective wheeled trucks, as indicated at 26, in order that the trucks may be connected for simultaneous swinging movements upon their pivotal'supp'orts 23. A suitable crossbar 27 connects the bars 25 atabout the middle thereof and beneath the sills 2. Across that end of the'stand or table which is opposite the small ironing-board 8 there is a substantially horizontal rock shaft or bar 28, which isjournaled at its outer end in a suitable bearing-bracket 29, carried by the adj acent sill 2, its inner end beingmounted in a bearing 30, mounted upon the front end of a longitudinally-disposed beamor bar 31,

which is supported upon the adjacentlower zontal member of the latch 38 'when in frame-bar 4 and braced at its rear end by a locked position.

cross bar or brace '32, secured transversely between the sills. A crank-arm 33 depends What is claimed is 1. A table having le -standards, a pair of from the inner end of the rock-bar 28 and is 3 substantially U-shape Wheeled trucks emconnected to the adjacent wheeled truck by a link 34. At the outer end of the rock-bar there is a terminal crank 35, which is in- 'clined rearwardly, so as to pass in the rear of the adjacent leg-standard 1, and terminates in an upstanding handle 36, whereby upon swinging the handle forwardly, as in Fig. 1,-

the wheeled truck members will be swung rearwardly and upwardly, so as to ermit of the leg-standards resting upon the oor, and upon a reverse movement of. the handle the truck will be swung downwardly and for-- of the truck members and maintain them in which is adjacent the crank-handle 36, so as to swing at substantially right angles to the plane of movement of the latter and to lie in engagement with the front side of said crank- .handle when swung rearwardly into an upright position, as Fig. 2, thereby to lock the crank-handle, and thus hold the wheeled truck ri idly in its operative position. A suitable eeper 40 is provided upon the adj acent leg-standard and notched in'its u per edge to receive the lower substantially oribracing the lower ends of the respectivefront and rear leg-standards and swungtherefrom, a connection extending between the trucks, a rock-bar mounted across one end of the table, a crank-arm for the rock-bar, a connection between the crankarm and the adjacent truck, an operating crank-handle for the rock-bar, and means carried by the frame for engagement with the crank-handle to lock the same when the wheeled trucks are in operative position. I

2. A table having le -standards, a pair of substantially U-shape wheeled trucks embracing the lower ends of the respective front and rear leg-standards and swung thereon, a connection between the trucks, a rock-bar mounted across the table, a crankarm for the rock-bar, a connection between the crank-arm and the adjacent truck, an operating crank-handle for the rock-bar, a latch member pivoted upon one of the legstandards for engagement 'With the crankhis WYLEY HENRY X FLAKE. Witnesses:

R. H. ROGERS, J. M. GULLETT, A. HARRIS, S. P. HARRIS. 

